[Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson of SCOTUS has confirmed that her career advancements have been based on ‘Section 8’ promotions. Her dissent from last week's ruling against racial preferences in college admissions demonstrates both her gullibility and overall ignorance (terminally innumerate). In there she argues for benefits of diversity in education, and presents a preposterous example of black infant survival rates under black physicians (here). It reminds me of the congressman, a few years back, who warned of a Pacific island with a military base on it tipping over because we were stationing too many troops there. Talk about our republic suffering its slings and arrows from elected officials and promoted bureaucrats. gjr]

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297 responses to “Sandbox – 6jul23”
Wait! What? Concern for the little people of acolytes of global warming –
UK climate envoy calls rapid green transition ‘idiotic’ during meetings with John Kerry
Top British climate official says moving too quickly to green energy will ‘simply impoverish people’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/uk-climate-envoy-calls-rapid-green-transition-idiotic-during-meetings-john-kerry
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Punchy, you’ll just have to sue me after, I throw you to the curb.
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Gregory – “… I throw you to the curb.”
Careful, Gregory – those kinky types tend to like the rough stuff.
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fish: “I am the wellspring from which you flow.
He truly is your only reason to go on living isn’t he psul?”
lol. Exactly.
“When I am gone, you will have never been. What would your world be, without me? My son.”
re: Scotto@4:01PM
You can’t blame her (Jackson). She obviously was put into place to please a racial voting bloc and is doing exactly what you would expect in terms of looking out for their specific interests. Diversity without some kind of overriding civic duty is a helluva thing but results in a more-common-than-not fight over resources as we all ride the roller coaster to oblivion.
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Posted by: scenes | 11 July 2023 at 06:08 AM
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🐠 @6:23AM
Next up will be GPT-generated psulposts. God knows they’d be easy enough to generate.
Speaking of which, soon we will be even more awash in infinite nonsense as AI sweeps through the kipple industry.
https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-revolution-outsourced-workers/
It seems to me that the music biz is also low-hanging fruit here. Anything so filled with tropes has to be vulnerable.
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“Next up will be GPT-generated psulposts.”
We’ll know, because the spelling will improve!
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Posted by: scenes | 11 July 2023 at 06:32 AM
I’ve suspected for a couple of years now that we’ve been psulbotted. Much easier to program when you have a central theme.
It’s not like it requires any real thought.
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I think Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth is gunning for moron of the year:
“”It’s the impact honestly on the employees that weighs the most on me,” he said.
Whitworth called on people not to punish the workforce but rather to attribute blame to him.”
So, he wants blame, but no punishment. He could resign or give his salary to the workers he claims to be so concerned about.
“Whitworth confirmed that the company will maintain its partnerships without making any changes.”
So – “we screwed up, but we’re going to continue our mistake.”
OK.
“While Whitworth admits that dealing with the boycott has caused him stress, he remains devoted to Anheuser-Busch, describing it as an “institution” closely tied to the American flag.”
Yeah – that’s the way! That American Flag sarong looks absolutely fabulous on you, dear!
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bud-light-plummets-14th-place-210130892.html
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Posted by: Scott O | 11 July 2023 at 07:41 AM
Too much good beer out there to worry about Brendans barely palatable carbonated urine beer product.
If he has a problem I’m sure the agency would take him back.
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“Too much good beer out there to worry about Brendans barely palatable carbonated urine beer product.”
Hah – not worried a bit. Never went for a brew that let you see through to the bottom of the stein.
I’m looking at this new phenomena of large corps willing to blow billions in order to hold the line on our “great reset”.
It used to be a given that if a company made a marketing faux pas, heads rolled PDQ and the brand would humble itself to the public. Now they wring their hands over fake concerns for “the workers” and blame the buying public.
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837a
It’s the water…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUTdrt-dvxQ
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It’s the water…
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ljluzYTUcpM
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Posted by: scenes | 11 July 2023 at 10:23 AM
That will haunt me forever.
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Scott
Gregory threatening me with a physical assault on the streets or sidewalks of Nevada City is a joke just like him claiming to be a libertarian. He’s too fat and slow to cause me any harm. He’s full of shit just like his hero Trump. Besides lawyers would love to represent me with such a well documented threat.
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Punchy, you keep lobbing malicious slanders my way knowing you don’t have enough stuff to be worth siccing a lawyer on. Yes, I’m fat and slow at the moment, but you don’t have eyes on the back of your head.
Trump isn’t my “hero”. I’ve never voted for him. You slander me, over and over, because I don’t dogpile on Trump on command.
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Now, Punchy, if you were still associate with KVMR I could approach their management but they canned your ass long ago.
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OK Gregory, here’s an easy one:
Do you believe that Biden won the election fair and square and that he our rightfully elected President not Trump?
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….and speaking of psulbot….I think Gregory’s spat earlier reset him.
He went to the beginning of his query list.
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” Do you believe that Biden won the election fair and square and that he our rightfully elected President not Trump?”
So, you think the election was run fairly and squarely? Even with the CIA/FBI/NSA in the background shutting down, for example, the online presence of the New York Post? Stopping Twits from sharing a Post editorial and investigative reporting about Hunter Biden’s laptop?
Biden was elected by the process in place. Biden is the current president of the USA.
You, being a fake human, can’t even ask a fair question.
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fishanthrope 1246p
Punchy has his shibboleths.
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Punchy,
Do you believe Hunter Biden’s laptop is Hunter Biden’s laptop?
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Punchy,
Do you think Hunter Biden’s 4 year old daughter is Joe Biden’s granddaughter?
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Punchy,
How did Biden amass millions of dollars on a legislator’s salary? Did his son(s) sell access to him to, for example, the CCP or Burisma?
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Can you document how each of your 12:46 allegations effected votes in the election and how many? By the way I was not “canned” at KVMR. Where did you get that idea? Can you provide details or did you make it up. After 14 years as News Director and Producer and being 76 it was my choice to move on to other things.
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Gregory
They all get rich as President Gregory. Thought you knew that. Look at Obama, Clinton, both Bushes and Reagan for examples. By the way how did Kushner get a 2 Billion dollar investment deal from the Saudi’s? Do you think he would have got that if he wasn’t Trumps son in law?
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They all get rich as President Gregory.
You been holding out on us Gregory? Are you rich and president?
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Please everyone, note the former news director of KVMR thinks every President is crooked, on the take.
I suppose that means he thinks everyone just roots for their team and a’gin the others. That explains his lack of concern for the “big guy” getting his 10% off the top.
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Punch 230p
So, you have proof you didn’t get canned? That’s not what I heard.
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Please everyone, note the former news director of KVMR thinks every President is crooked, on the take.
On balance I agree with him.
But with Trump it seemed to bother him…..wonder why? Not a single mention of the Senator from MBNA and his 50 year grift.
I guess Punch felt cheated when Trump wedged his way in and deprived him of four years of Crooked Hillary.
Perhaps Trumps greatest achievement was keeping that menopausal Illinois grifter from her place in history. For that alone he rendered the United States a great service!
Enjoy a little Charles Cooke…
Read the whole thing with links….not that psul would ever read one….over at instapundit.
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Note to the ponytail of ignorance, the Bushes and Saint Ronnie were rich long before they were president. DUH!
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The Clintons were the masters of bib time grift. These are their before and after numbers: Before: $1.3 million
After: $241.5 million. I didn’t vote for either of them fishhole.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 11 July 2023 at 06:57 PM
“bib time” huh? Something with which I’m sure you’re well acquainted.
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Looks like creepy gampa joe found out they were not serving pudding cups! LOL
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/president-biden-skips-nato-dinner-white-house-cites-ongoing-workload
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You know its hit rock bottom when –
Honduran Drug Dealers Praise San Francisco’s Sanctuary City Policy: ‘You Go to Jail and You Come Out’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/11/report-hondurans-flock-to-san-francisco-to-deal-drugs/
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“big time” fishhole thanks for the correction. Did you vote for Trump?
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 11 July 2023 at 08:41 PM
Did you vote for Trump?
The second time. Felt I owed it to him for keeping Hillary out of the Oval Office.
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” Did you vote for Trump?”
When the alternatives were the likes of Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden, what does that matter?
I didn’t but that doesn’t keep you from intimating otherwise.
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The religion of global warming hates humans and is totally racist! –
https://www.breitbart.com/africa/2023/07/11/climate-alarmists-fret-over-too-many-african-indian-babies-on-world-population-day/
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With how the NATO membership is increasing to counteract the Russian threat, we may have to request that the progressives re-do some world geography. Then the North Atlantic can include countries that border the Taiwan Strait – on either side. So when China invades Siberia to mine gold, coal, uranium, rare-earth etc. deposits, Russia won’t have anyone to turn to.
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Of course she’s a member of the socialist workers party.
At least she had the decency to not call herself a green libertarian.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/watch-virtue-signalling-environmental-minister-bikes-climate-conference-escort-gas-cars
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re: DB@9:53
Too many African and Indian babies.
Well, duh. Just wait until sub-Saharan Africa not only maxes out it’s population, but increases the standard of living there. I guess it’ll just show up in the fossil record like all the other mass extinctions, maybe with plastics instead of iridium.
The thing is, humans are hard on the environment. Too successful. Per Michael Boulter (big-data paleobiologist in Jolly Olde England) Africa saw a 50% decrease in types of larger animals after people started spreading around, the Americas saw a 70% decrease after the Bering land bridge did it’s thing. Folks who think of indigenous Americans as a group of matriarchal, peace-loving, diversity-accepting, stewards of the land should consider that for a moment.
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EF: “With how the NATO membership is increasing to counteract the Russian threat,…”
Ah well, what could go wrong?
The hoi polloi are in an expansionist mood on both sides, and I certainly think it’s worthwhile to risk nuclear armageddon to fly a Pride Flag over the Kremlin.
The Nevada City 420th and a brigade of men-in-dresses can march to Moscow while two indistinguishable groups of Russian-speakers make the rubble bounce while providing a diversionary war.
It’ll make the 100% off days at Walgreens look like nothin’.
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Posted by: scenes | 12 July 2023 at 06:58 AM
Folks who think of indigenous Americans as a group of matriarchal, peace-loving, diversity-accepting, stewards of the land should consider that for a moment.
You left out Slaving and Mass Genociding……well as much genociding as a bunch of guys on horses with hunting and winter prep can manage.
I suggested a few of the more delicate visitors here read Empire of the Summer Moon to recalibrate their thinking after watching too much Dances with Wolves. I don’t recall that my suggestion was met with a great deal of enthusiasm….makes me think that a couple of them had already stumbled across it.
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re: fishA@7:32AM
For those who don’t read links (or books), this wasn’t a bad overview I thought.
“Apache Terror | The Comanche “War of Extermination” that DESTROYED the Apache”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSYN7GF_ll0
It’s funny how common the model of nomads vs. farmers is, but this looks to have been an interesting variant. Nomad hunters vs. quasi-farmers who themselves raided other people.
Ignoring all of this in favor of the White Man Bad narrative is kind of boring. It’s like the hyper-simplistic versions of Cortes in Mexico you hear, which always seem to ignore the religious activities of Aztecs combined with a whole passel of pissed-off subject nations who joined the revolt.
Maybe modern Progressives simply enjoy the self-flagellation. We live in an era of kink.
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scenes – “Ignoring all of this in favor of the White Man Bad narrative is kind of boring.”
Leftists aren’t capable of much other than assigning all blame to one group and all victimhood to another.
“white Euro man and everything he does is bad – dark, non-Euro man and all he does is vibrant and culturally enriching”.
Along with an inability to grasp subtlety, nuance and frames of reference that shift with time they are astoundingly ignorant of world history.
Combine that with the lefts’ racist view of non-Euro duskies as simple-minded children lacking agency and guile – you end up with, well – California!
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/07/12/california-bill-would-let-judges-rectify-racial-bias-in-sentencing-for-reparations/
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SUMMER SURPRISE-INFLATION FINALLY EASES-3% LOWEST IN YEARS-‘END OF FED EMERGENCY’
Looks like phones were called and pressure was felt! Can’t dare run risk that the senile puppet in the Oval Office might be dislodged and spoil progressivisms plans.
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“Leftists aren’t capable of much other than assigning all blame to one group and all victimhood to another.”
Sometimes that even works. Depends on the group. If you view the past as either…
1) Constructed from a web of truth, lies, and storytelling favoring the in-group. .or.
2) Hard-nosed laying out of provable facts, minus the whoppers historians love to tell .or.
3) Constructed from a web of truth, lies, and storytelling opposing the in-group.
It’s pretty obvious that (1) can result in societal glue, (2) is rare, and (3) is something rather new to the world. You’d have to dig around a bit to find the unusual case where a group of people blame themselves for all ills. Even flagellants were probably pro-Western civilization to the extent that they thought of it as a distinct group.
You do have to wonder what future chroniclers, probably writing in Mandarin, will think. A self-destructive religion with a Man-Who-Died-For-Your-Sins (G. Floyd), The Devil (D. Trump), sinners (K. Rittenhouse), saints (G. Thunberg), and unruly groups of fat women with blue hair and other riffraff following the symbol of The Shoe or The Gourd.
An amazing time to be alive, I tell ya.
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Punchy,
Do you believe Hunter Biden’s laptop is Hunter Biden’s laptop?
This is truly an easy slam dunk. Say yes, Punch.
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Punchy,
For extra credit, name the guy who arranged the signing of a claim by former spooks that the laptop sure seemed like Russian Disinformation to them.
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